. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . ulls-eye anda ten-inch outer circle, at two hundred yards, waver visibly, makingaccurate sighting a difficult proposition. In the afternoon, the artist, with Fred, walked to Graylingpostoffice, a mile or so northeast over the prairie, and at theentrance of Red canyon, for so is the great opening in the northernhills named, up which, in a few days more, it is announced, theparty will journey over the trail to Tepee basin, fifteen hundredfeet higher up. Grayling postoffice, so na
. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . ulls-eye anda ten-inch outer circle, at two hundred yards, waver visibly, makingaccurate sighting a difficult proposition. In the afternoon, the artist, with Fred, walked to Graylingpostoffice, a mile or so northeast over the prairie, and at theentrance of Red canyon, for so is the great opening in the northernhills named, up which, in a few days more, it is announced, theparty will journey over the trail to Tepee basin, fifteen hundredfeet higher up. Grayling postoffice, so named from the fish found plentifullyin the nearby river, is a smalllog building with a tarred feltroof, standing in the dooryard ofPeter Kerzenmacher. Thepostmaster, Peter, is of Germanbirth, twenty-four years in thiscountry and this particularsection, a heavyset but activeman. He is dark and slowspoken, with an illuminatingsmile and a handgrip that in-spires utter confidence in himas a solid rock of friendly de-pendability. The first representative ofthe Kerzenmacher establish-ment, official and otherwise, Peter. Page 55 56 Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies encountered, however, was Mistress Kcrzenmacher herself, whenI red, with the matter-of-course at-homc-ncss of this section ofthe West, placed his hand on the knob of the house door, andwithout knocking, walked into the ladys kitchen, followed by the ;utiM. immediately thereafter presented to its mistresi Mrs. ker/enrnachcr. a comely woman well above the average stature,with a fresh clear skin, of an attractive neatness of |>erson andappointments, received her visitors with a fineness of mannertiiat left no sort of doubt of their welcome. The ladys steady,direct gaze, a poise of manner that showed a very completemastery of all possible exigeru us of the life of a ranchers clear voice of an agreeable pitch, together with a certain dignityof bearing, coupled with a genial and sincere courtesy to her
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